Anduril Industries operates a commercially disruptive, venture-backed defense manufacturing and software business model that fundamentally challenges traditional government contracting. Unlike legacy defense primes that bill government agencies for research labor and raw materials through 'cost-plus-fixed-fee' contracts—which actively penalize efficiency by rewarding higher costs and project delays—Anduril operates on a commercial 'fixed-price, private capital' model. Anduril uses private venture capital to design, engineer, flight-test, and manufacture operational defense hardware upfront without taxpayer funding. It then sells completed, mission-ready products (such as Roadrunner-M interceptors, Ghost drones, and Barracuda cruise missiles) at transparent, fixed prices, capturing high gross margins (exceeding 45-50% on mature hardware lines). Anduril layers high-margin, recurring Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) revenue on top of physical hardware through its Lattice OS command-and-control platform. Military branches pay annual per-seat and per-node software licensing fees to integrate Lattice across their bases, command centers, and sensor grids, providing Anduril with software-grade cash flow and immense operational lock-in.